Dutch and Australian officials begin investigation of MH17 crash site

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The Dutch government said police will begin searching the Malaysia Airlines crash site to try to find more bodiesSergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Helen WomackMoscow

Last updated at 1:53PM, August 1 2014

Dutch and Australian investigators were finally able to start probing the MH17
crash site today, carrying out painstaking work in a still volatile area
where 14 Ukrainian and pro-Russian combatants were killed overnight.

The Dutch government said 70 police experts would conduct searches in several
places across the vast site and try to recover more bodies from the
Malaysian Airlines Boeing shot down on July 17 with the loss of 298 lives.
So far, some 200 coffins have been sent to Holland, which lost 193 of its
citizens and is leading the investigation.